THE  SECRET  OF  MEMORY 

The  Demonstration  of  a  New  Theory 
By  A.  VICTOR  SEGNO 


Copyright   1906  by 

A.  VICTOR,   SEGNO 

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Los  Angeles,  California 

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THE  SECRET  OF 

By  A.   VICTOR  SEGNO 

PREFACE 

My  dear  reader,  I  have  written  this  course  of  instructions  for 
the  men  and  women  who  are  ambitious,  and  desirous  of  acquiring  and 
retaining  greater  knowledge  than  they  now  possess — those  who  have 
begun  to  realize  the  great  losses  they  sustain  as  a  result  of 
being  unable  to  remember  the  right  information  at  the  right  time, 

-  Believing  that  you  have  been  attracted  toward  this  study  be- 
cause you  are  in  need  of  the  information  it  contains,  I  am  going 

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to  talk  to  you  Just  as  I  would  if  you  consulted  me  personally.   I 
have  an  entirely  new  theory  to  explain,  and  I  shall  try  to  do  it 
in  the  most  simple  language  that  will  make  my  meaning  clear  to 
you. 

I  believe  that  the  ability  to  recall  information  when  needed  is 
one  of  the  most  valuable  assets  anyone  can  have  and  that  it  will 
do  more  toward  creating  success  and  happiness  than  any  other  one 
faculty  possessed  by  man, 

Several  years  ago  I  became  convinced  of  the  need  of  a  better 
understanding  of  the  mental  process  called  Memory,  or  remembering. 
Therefore,  I  commenced  on  a  line  of  investigations  which  have 
yielded  most  gratifying  results.   Having  tested  my  theories  for 
the  past  three  years  and  found  them  true  in  every  case  I  am  now 
ready  to  give  you  the  benefit  of  my  labors.   All  I  ask  of  you  is 
that  you  give  these  theories  an  honest  test.  Having  done  that,  I 
am  satisfied  to  abide  by  your  decision  as  to  their  merits. 

A.  VICTOR  SEGNO. 


Los  Angeles, 
August  1,  1906. 


LESSON  I. 

"Oh,  what  would  I  not  give  if  I 
could  only  remember  that  name?" 

Ohl  I  forgotl   Is  there  another  sentence  in  our  language  that 
represents  as  much  loss,  disaster,  and  suffering  as  these  two 
words?  Think  of  the  broken  engagements,  the  friendships  sacri- 
ficed, the  lives  lost,  because  someone  "forgot." 

There  is  no  single  mental  or  physical  deficiency  so  disastrous 
to  progress,  economy  and  success  as  an  imperfect  memory.   It  is 
the  most  expensive  misfortune  anyone  could  be  burdened  with.   It 
loses  for  its  possessor  every  year  a  thousand  times  as  much  as  he, 
with  all  his  other  powers,  can  succeed  in  saving.   It  forces  him 
to  study  and  work  hard  and  then  only  allows  him  to  retain  a  very 
small  part  of  what  he  has  acquired.   It  robs  him  of  his  greatest 
power—knowledge-- just  when  he  needs  it.  most.   It  forces  him  to  do 
his  work  over  and  over  again  at  a  great  loss  of  time  and  money 
because  of  errors  and  omissions. 

Many  men  and  women  remain  slaves  to  laborious  work  all  their 
lives  because  they  are  unable  to  recall  the  things  they  see  and 
hear  each  day.  They  remain  uneducated  because  they  forget  what 
they  read  and  what  is  told  to  them.  They  remain  in  unpleasant 


localities  and  associate  with  undesirable  people  because  they  are 
unable  to  remember  the  lessons  which  would  elevate  their  position 
and  purify  their  surroundings. 

Our  power  to  cope  with  the  affairs  of  life  are  represented  by  \ 
the  amount  of  information  we  retain  and  not  by  the  number  of 
subjects  we  have  attempted  to  study.   What  value  would  there  be  in 
studying  twenty  subjects  today  if  we  have  no  means  of  retaining 
the  knowledge  and  must  forget  it  in  a  day  or  a  week  or  a  month? 
What  use  would  there  be  of  earning  a  large  salary  if  one  let  it 
all  slip  out  of  a  hole  in  his  pocket  before  he  reached  home?  What 
would  be  the  use  of -  a  lawyer  studying  the  details  of  his  client's 
case  if  he  were  unable  to  recall  the  facts  when  the  case  was  called 
into  court?  What  would  be  the  advantage  to  a  man  if  he  should 
take  up  the  study  of  medicine  and  disease  and  when  called  in  on  a 
case  be  unable  to  remember  what  disease  was  indicated  by  the 
symptoms  shown  by  the  patient  or  if  he  should  forget  what  he 
should  prescribe?  The  chances  are  he  would  make  a  mistake  that 
would  cost  the  patient  his  life. 

Every  few  days  we  read  of  some  train  dispatcher  who  started  a 
passenger  train  on  its  journey  and  then  forgot  to  send  a  message 
to  an  incoming  train  telling  it  where  to  wait  and  pass  the  out- 
going train — result,  great  loss  of  life  and  property  and  all 
because  of  an  imperfect  memory. 


You  cannot  have  failed  to  observe  the  vast  number  of  apparently 
bright  business  men  who  have  met  with  failure.   They  did  not  fail 
because  they  did  not  know  how  to  succeed  but  because  they  allowed 
themselves  to  forget  to  do  the  necessary  thing  at  the  right  time. 
Their  memories  were  either  naturally  defective  or  they  allowed 
something  else  to  occupy  their  attention  at  the  time  their 
business  needed  their  advice.   They  simply  forgot  the  time  and  the 
necessity  of  certain  action  which  would  have  made  success  for  them. 

Look  at  the  failures  many  men  and  women  maKe  of  their  lives! 
It  is  not  because  they  do  not  know  better  but  because  they  have 
forgotten  to  use^at  the  right  moment,  either  tact,  politeness, 
patience,  kindness,  truthfulness  orcperseverance.   It  is  the 
things  they  have  forgotten  that  rob  them  of  success. 

You  can  set  it* down  as  a  fact,  that  the  more  successful  a 
person  is  the  more  perfect  is  his  memory,  and  likewise  the  greater 
the  failure  one  has  made,  the  more  he  has  forgotten  that  he  should 
have  remembered. 

As  an  example  measure  your  own  accomplishments  for  a  few  days 
and  you  will  readily  see  where  you  could  have  done  very  differ- 
ently if  you  had  only  been  able  to  recall  certain  information, 
facts  and  figures  at  the  right  moment.   Some  important  matter 
comes  up  that  demands  prompt  action,  yd'u  must  decide  at  once  and 
on  your  decision  depends  the  success  or  failure  of  the  proposi- 


tion--what  would,  you  not  give  to  be  able  to  recall  with  promptness 
all  the  information  .connected  with  the  subject  so  that  you  might 
be  certain  of  making  the  correct  decision?  You  make  the  decision 
and  in  twenty-four  hours  after,  when  it  is  too  late,  you  remem- 
ber certain  facts  which  if  you  had  recalled  them  at  the  right 
time,  would  have  changed  your  decision.   Too  late  now.   Behold  the 
disappointment  and  possible  loss  to  yourself  and  others  and  all 
because  of  an  imperfect  memory. 

The  people  who  forget  to  sign  their  name  or  address  to  business 
letters  cause  much  loss  of  time  and  annoyance  to  themselves  and 
to  others.   The  people  who  forget  to  pay  their  bills  on  time  lose 
their  credit  and  the  confidence  of  their  fellowmen.   The  man  who 
forgets  his  umbrella  usually  gets  wet.   There  are  thousands  of 
ways  in  which  a  forgetful  person  retards  his  own  success  by  at- 
tracting from  others  criticism  and  unkind  and  unhelpful  thoughts. 
Do  you  not  know  this  tc  be  true  i^  your  own  experience? 


LESSON  II. 

Memory  to  most  people  means  remembering--the  opposite  of 
forgetting.   Beyond  that  they  know  very  little  about  It.   It  Is 
not  surprising  that  the  public  should  be  so  uninformed,  for  even 
men  of  science  have  overlooked  the  secret. 

Ask  the  average  well-educated  man  how  we  remember  the  things 
we  see,  hear  and  feel,  and  he  will  most  likely  answer  you  that 
they  are  in  some  manner  either  printed,  impressed  or  photographed 
on  certain  brain  cells  and  that  we  sort  out  the  pictures  we  de- 
sire to  review.   He  will  not  tell  you  how  we  locate  and  recall 
the  particular  scene  or  knowledge  we  need,  because  his  knowledge  ' 
regarding  memory  is  limited  to  what  he  has  read  or  heard,  and 
"beyond  that  all  is  vague.  He  possibly  does  not  know  that  the 
so-called  memory  cells,  or  seat  of  memory,  of  which  he  speaks  has 
never  been  found  in  the  brain  of  man. 

Let  us  consider  the  theory  of  memory  cells  in  the  brain  and 
see  what  results  we  arrive  at.   If  all  the  different  scenes, 
sounds,  words  and  feelings  which  we  experience  each  day  of  our 
lives  were  stored  up  in  a  separate  cell  in  our  brains,  allowing 
that  these  pictures  be  ever  so  small,  how  could  they  be  contained 
in  so  small  a  space  as  that  occupied  by  the  brain.   Stop  and 
consider  what  passes  before  your  observation  in  one  day, 

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then  multiply  that  by  30  and  see  what  an  enormous  amount  of  space 
would  be  required  to  contain  the  experiences  of  one  month.   Then 
think  of  the  twelve  months  in  each  year  and  you  will  find  it 
beyond  your  comprehension. 

If  in  the  brain  there  were  a  cell  for  each  thought,  picture 
and  experience  that  passes  before  our  mind's  eye,  Nature  must 
have  constructed  within  our  brain  millions  of  cells  and  be  holding 
them  in  readiness,  waiting  for  the  pictures.   We  know  that  all 
cells  are  physical  and  that  it  is  a  fact  that  in  the  physical 
body  any  unused  part  wastes  away.   This  being  so,  cells  made  in 
advance  would  as  a  result  of  inaction  die  and  disappear.   Then 
Nature  never  makes  anything  unless  there  is  use  for  it.   Neither 
does  she  make  cells  instantly  to  accommodate  a  thought  or  a  pic- 
ture, for  this  would  require  a  process  of  instantaneous  physical 
construction.   This  ws  know  could  not  be  so,  for  Nature  does  not 
perform  miracles.   All  development  is  the  result  of  growth,  and 
all  growth  is  the  result  of  use  and  exercise. 

Let  us  consider  this  further  by  means  of  an  example:   Two  boys 
who  had  spent  some  months  together  parted  and  never  met  again  for 
twenty  years.   Each  had  forgotten  the  other  until  one  day  they 
were  brought  together  again.   Instantly  the  experiences  of  the 
few  months  spent  together  came  back  to  them  as  vividly  as  though 
it  had  been  but  yesterday.   What  I  wish  you  to  decide  is:   Did 

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tnose  memory  calls  lie  idle  and  useless,  occupying  valuable  space 
in  each  boy's  brain  .for  twenty  years  and  then  suddenly  start  up 
from  inactivity  and  reveal  the  boyhood  scenes  imbued  with  life- 
like naturalness?  Do  you  think  physical  cells  could  do  this? 
Could  you  close  your  eyes  for  twenty  years  and  then  expect  to  see 
with  all  the  clearness  of  youth?  Could  you  tie  up  your  arm  and 
leave  it  inactive  for  six  months  or  a  year  and  then  instantly  put 
it  into  action  and  find  it  strong  and  reliable?  Have  you  ever 
spent  from  three  to  five  days  in  bed?  Then  you  know  how  weak  your 
legs  and  body  were  when  you  got  up  and  tried  to  walk.   If  so  much 
weakness  is  produced  in  a  few  days  of  non-use  of  the  strongest 
muscles  of  the  body,  how  much  would  be  left  of  a  tiny  cell  after  a 
year's  inactivity  and  non-use?  I  am  sure  you  will  need  no  further 
comparisons  to  convince  you  that  memory  is  not  dependent  upon  phy- 
sical cells. 

The  theory  of  memory  cells  and  recorded  pictures  therein  is 
incorrect,  in  fact  impossible,  because  the  brain  is  not  made  up  of 
sheets  or  pages  on  which  the  mind  photographs  pictures,  neither 
is  it  made  up  of  cells  such  as  bees  construct  for  holding  honey; 
each  cell  filled  with  a  record  of  some  specific  scene  or  word  of 
knowledge.   This  separate  cell  system,  if  true,  would  limit  our 
intelligence  to  the  number  of  memory  cells  provided  in  our  brains. 
When  these  were  all  filled  it  would  be  necessary  for  us  to  start 

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a  mental  housecleaning  and  empty  some  of  them  before  we  could  take 
in  new  knowledge.   Did  you  ever  try  to  forget  some  certain  thing? 
I  will  wager  that  those  things  you  tried  hardest  to  forget  you 
remember  most  clearly  today.   Am  I  not  correct? 

If  the  memory  cell  theory  were  correct  it  would  be  necessary 
for  us  to  have  a  separate  cell  for  each  word  in  our  language  and 
should  we  study  other  languages  another  like  number  of  cells  would 
be  needed,  and  all  these  to  be  kept  within  the  small  space  occu- 
pied by  the  brain.   People  acquire  a  thousand  times  more  informa- 
tion after  they  pass  their  twentieth  birthday  than  before  and  yet 
it  is  noticeable  that  our  heads  do  not  enlarge  to  any  extent  after 
that  age.   Then  where  do  we  store  the  mental  pictures?  No  one  can 
answer  this  question  because  no  one  knows.   No  one  has  located  any 
such  system  or  organs  in  the  brain. 

Scientists  have  never  been  able  to  locate  the  memory  cells  or 
the  seat  of  memory  in  the  brain,  although  they  accept  the  state- 
ment that  it  is  there,  somewhere,  because  they  observe  its  action 
there.   They  did  not  find  it,  because  it  is  not  there.   I  cannot 
tell  you  what  memory  is,  because  there  is  no  such  thing.   This  may 
appear  to  be  a  strong  assertion  and  so  it  is.  No  stronger  asser- 
tion has  ever  been  made  regarding  physical  or  mental  science. 
However,  I  know  i  can  prove  to  your  satisfaction  that  it  is  so. 

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LESSON  III. 

It  is  not  my  intention  to  pull  down  a  theory  to  which  the  peo- 
ple have  clung  without  giving  a  better  one  in  its  place. 

In  my  researches  I  have  examined  the  human  brain  and  studied 
its  formation  and  have  found  that  it  is  not  composed  of  cells  as 
is  erroneously  believed,  but  instead,  is  made  up  of  a  great  number 
of  fine  threads,  each  being  distinct  in  itself,  but  closely  asso- 
ciated together  as  are  the  threads  in  a  skein  of  silk,  a  strand  of 
rope,  of  as  are  telegraph  and  telephone  wires  when  bound  together 
to  form  a  cable.   I  found  that  these  threads  or  cords  lead  to  and 
are  connected  with  the  nerves  of  sensation  which  are  intimately 
associated  with  the  sense  of  sight, *  hearing,  smell,  taste  and 
feeling.   In  further  tracing  these  brain  threads  I  lound  that  they 
passed  to  the  back  of  the  head  and  neck,  and  there  entered  an 
opening  in  the  spine.   There  they  are  known  as  the  Spinal  Column. 
From  there  they  diverge  at  various  points  and  connect  with  the 
system  of  nerves  that  lead  off  in  all  directions,  connecting  with 
all  the  internal  and  external  organs  and  muscles  of  the  body.  Thus 
forming  a  connection  between  the  organs  located  in  the  head  and 
those  in  the  body.   This  physical  fact,  which  any  student  of  anat- 
omy can  prove  for  himself,  if  he  cares  to  examine  a  dissected 
human  brain,  had  a  new  meaning  for  me.   It  convinced  me  that  the 

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brain  was  not  a  storehouse  for  memory,  where  scenes  and  experi- 
ences were  gathered  together  and  left  to  wait  until  called  for. 
I  knew  that  Nature  was  too  economical  to  waste  space  in  that  way, 
so  I  began  a  series  of  experiments  which  lasted  several  years  and 
finally  resulted  in  my  finding  the  Secret  of  Memory. 

This  secret,  like  all  discoveries  of  great  value,  seems  a  very 
simple  thing  after  it  has  been  explained  and  you  will  no  doubt  re- 
mark:  "Welll   Why  did  not  some  one  find  that  out  before?" 

Did  it  ever  occur  to  you  that  the  language  you  speak  is  not  a 
language  composed  of  thousands  of  words  as  you  speak  them  but  a 
language  of  twenty-six  letters.  That  all  the  beautifully  expressed 
sentiments  of  the  poet,  and  the 'powerful  eloquence  of  the  orator, 
are  constructed  from  these  twenty-six  letters.   That  all  the  beau- 
tiful music  you  have  ever  heard  was  composed  from  seven  notes. 
That  every  message  sent  over  the  telegraph  is  composed  from  the 
code  of  signs  which  correspond  with  the  twenty-six  letters  of  our 
alphabet? 

The  Telegraph  instrument  does  not  contain  in  storage  each  word 
in  our  language,  yet  it  can  receive  and  transmit  them  all.   The 
piano,  violin  or  other  musical  instrument,  does  not  contain  within 
itself  a  single  chord  of  music,  yet  with  its  seven  notes  any  con- 
cord of  sounds  can  be  produced,  recalled  and  reproduced  again  and 
again  at  the  will  of  the  operator. 

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Man  discovered  these  simple  methods  of  production  and  repro- 
duction and  yet  he  did  not  realize  that  in  this  discovery  he  had 
found  the  system  by  which  his  own  brain  operated. 

The  gray  matter  called  brain  is  composed  of  minute  threads,  or 
chords,  each  tuned  to  respond  to  a  certain  vibration  as  is  the  case 
with  musical  instruments  and  the  wireless  telegraph  instrument. 
Touch  a  certain  string  on  a  violin  and  it  vibrates  and  gives  forth 
a  certain  sound,  this  sound  travels  through  space.  Touch  the  key 
of  a  telegraph  instrument  and  a  vibration  is  created  that  without 
human  assistance  travels  to  its  destiny  and  records  the  message. 
The  result  is  the  same  whether  sent  over  the  wires  or  without 
them. 

The  brain  is  not  a  storehouse  of  knowledge  but  is  a  dispatching 
and  receiving  instrument.  Its  complete  system  of  wires  between 
the  mental  organs  and  the  physical  is  so  perfect  that  if  you 
hurt  your  foot  the  vibration  is  instantly  conveyed  to  the  head. 
If  the  eye,  ear  or  nose  discovers  something  pleasant  or  unpleas- 
ant the  corresponding  sensations  (vibrations)  are  instantly 
transmitted  to  some  part  of  the  body.  If  the  nose  detects  the 
odor  of  appetizing  food,  thoughts  are  set  in  action  and  the  in- 
formation goes  at  once  to  the  stomach.   If  the  eye  detects  a 
beautiful  scene  or  the  ear  hears  music  or  other  pleasant  sounds 

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thought  vibrations  of  ecstasy  pass  over  the  entire  body.   Thus  the 
body  is  kept  as  well  informed  as  the  head. 

There  is  equally  as  much  gray  matter  or  brain  in  the  body 
(note  the  blind  man's  fingers)  as  we  find  in  the  head.  The  head 
is  only  the  central  receiving  and  dispatching  station  through 
which  all  messages  pass. 


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LESSON  IV. 

To  make  this  explanation  as  simple  as  possible,  I  must  state 
that  intelligence  is  universal;  that  it  exists  everywhere j  has 
always  existed  and  will  always  exist,  and  that  it  is  as  free  as 
the  air  we  breathe;  that  each  and  every  person  is  entitled  to 
call  upon  the  Great  Storehouse  of  Knowledge  for  all  the  informa- 
tion he  needs  and  that  he  will  receive  all  he  is  prepared  to 
understand  and  use.   It  is  not  my  intention  to  go  into  an  explan- 
ation of  this  subject  of  Universal  Intelligence,  as  I  covered  that 
fully  in  my  book,  '  'The  Law  of  Mentalism,  '  written  some  years  ago. 
In  these  instructions  I  am  dealing  with  memory.  • 

As  I  said  before,  the  brain  is  an  instrument  for  receiving  and 
dispatching  thoughts  --  vibrations  of  intelligence.  It  has  its 
code  of  vibrations  which  correspond  with  all  the  lights,  colors 
and  sounds  in  the  universe.   Every  brain  uses  and  recognizes  the 
same  code,  no  matter  what  language  the  person  speaks.  We  neither 
see,  hear,  feel,  smell  nor  taste  until  the  existing  conditions  set 
into  action  the  thought  vibrations  which  enter  the  brain  and  are 
transmitted  to  those  particular  faculties. 

Just  as  the  telegraph  operator  can  draw  upon  the  Universal 
Intelligence  and  send  it  over  the  wire  so  that  every  operator 
along  the  line  can  recognize  it,  so  you  or  I  can  send  forth  a 

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thought  vibration  and  it  will  reach  every  brain  that  is  ready  to 
accept  it  (is  tuned  in  harmony)  if  that  brain  is  not  too  busy  with 
other  things  when  the  message  is  passing. 

Every  vibration  of  intelligence  (thought)  that  you  recognize 
and  entertain  is  transmitted  to  all  parts  of  your  body  and  its 
influence  directs  either  the  construction,  destruction  or  recon- 
struction of  certain  parts,  and  thus  prepares  the  body  so  it  will 
act  in  harmony  with  the  thought,  making  it  a  part  of  the  thought 
and  tuning  it  so  that  it  will  attract  and  respond  more  easily  the 
next  time  that  particular  vibration  reaches  it. 

The  mental  code  of  one  mind  being  the  same  as  that  of  all 
others,  when  a  thought  goes  forth  it  vibrates  the  same  wires  in 
some  other  brain  and  that  person  immediately  recognizes  the 
thought  and  what  it  refers  to.  All  light,  color  and  sound  being 
a  specific  number  of  vibrations,  when  we  behold  a  scene  it  calls 
forth  in  our  brain  a  variety  of  vibrations  according  to  its 
lights,  shades  and  colors,  and  thus  enables  us  to  see  the  picture. 

To  make  the  explanation  simple  we  will  take  an  example  and 
allow  that  the  brain  has  a  code  of  twenty- six  vibrations  (in 
fact  it  has  a  code  covering  thousands  of  vibrations,  so  finely  and 
accurately  is  it  adjusted)  and  twenty- six  brain  wires,  each  cor- 
responding with  the  sound  vibrations  of  the  letters  of  our 
alphabet.   Now  when  the  thought  of  love  comes  to  you  it  indi- 

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cates  that  the  wires  which  give  forth  the  vibratory  sounds  of 
L.O.V.E.  are  vibrating,  that  the  thought  of  love  is  passing 
through  the  air,  and  that  you  are  in  a  receptive  condition  and 
have  attracted  it  to  you,  or  that  someone  has  sent  you  the  thought. 
This  thought  passes  over  your  system  of  nerves,  makes  its  pleasant 
influence  felt  and  passes  on  through  space  to  arouse  similar 
pleasant  vibrations  in  the  brains  and  bodies  of  all  who  are 
prepared  to  receive  them.   If  you  think  of  hate  the  action  is  the 
same,  but  ydu  are  injured  by  the  unpleasant  vibrations  instead 
of  being  benefited. 

Had  your  brain  been  entirely  occupied  with  other  work  and 
thought,  neither  the  thought  of  love  or  hate  would  have  reached 
you.   Therefore,  the  secret  of  keeping  injurious,  unpleasant  and 
unhealthful  thoughts  away  from  you  lies  in  keeping  your  brain  busy 
attracting  and  using  pleasant,  desirable  thoughts.  You  have  a 
will  and  you  can  select  for  yourself  the  character  of  the  thoughts 
you  will  entertain.   It  rests  with  you  to  select  those  that  will 
be  of  benefit  or  those  which  will  destroy  you. 

Thoughts  and  intelligence  do  not  exist  within  our  brains  any 
more  than  the  music  of  an  opera  exists  in  the  instruments  used  by 
musicians,  or  the  message  in  the  telegraph  instrument,  or  the 
written  letter  in  the  typewriter.   Our  brains  are  simply  instruments 
through  which  intelligence  is  brought  to  us.  The  brain  wires  are 

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tuned  by  the  passage  of  intelligence  (thoughts)  just  as  the 
wires  or  strings  of  a  musical  instrument  are  tuned  by  the  tension 
or  pressure  exerted  by  the  player. 

Thousands  of  thoughts  pass  by  us  every  hour  and  we  know 
nothing  of  them  because  we  do  not  attract  them  to  us.  Others 
reach  us,  pass  over  our  system  of  wires,  and  pass  out,  leaving 
little  or  no  impression,  because  we  either  have  no  immediate  use 
for  them  or  for  other  reasons  do  not  hold  them  until  they  have 
created  a  change  in  us  by  becoming  a  part  of  us.  Many  people  gain 
very  little  intelligence  because  they  are  indifferent,  and  allow 
the  thoughts  that  come  to  them  to  pass  away  without  holding  and 
using  them. 

After  a  brain  wire  or  set  of  wires  have  been  tuned  by  the 
holding  of  some  particular  thought  vibration,  the  wires  will  at- 
tract the  same  thought  and  picture  it  before  the  mind's  eye  over 
and  over  again,  and  each  time  with  greater  ease.  You  can  strike  a 
note  on  the  piano  and  the  vibration  will  cross  the  room  and  cause 
a  tuning  fork  or  the  string  on  a  violin  to  vibrate  in  unison.  A 
vibration  once  created  never  dies;  it  goes  on  forever.  The 
string  will  cease  vibrating,  and  the  sound  will  melt  away,  but 
that  is  the  proof  that  it  travels.  If  it  does  not  stay,  then  it 
must  go  forward.   If  it  did  not  travel  you  could  not  hear  it,  for 
your  ear  does  not  reach  out  to  the  sound;  the  sound  comes  to  your 

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ear.   Likewise  your  eye  does  not  go  out  to  the  mountain  seven 
miles  away,  but  instead  the  vibrations  of  light  and  color  from 
the  mountain  come  to  your  eye,  affect  the  nerves  and  you  see  it. 
In  the  case  of  the  person  who  is  termed  deaf,  it  is  because  the 
vibratory  drum  of  the  ear  is  thickened  and  does  not  vibrate  easily, 
so  that  only  the  louder  (stronger)  vibrations  can  be  heard  by  him. 
In  the  case  of  the  person  who  is  near-sighted  or  partially  blind, 
there  is  a  physical  defect  in  the  vibratory  nerves  of  the  eye, 
hence  only  strong  vibrations  from  things  which  are  near  make  an 
impression. 

The  same  law  applies  to  taste,  smell  and  feeling.  There- 
fore, it  is  not  possible  that  the  same  scene,  sound,  taste,  etc., 
will  appear  the  same  to  all  people.  It  all  depends  upon  the 
acuteness  of  the  senses.   The  person  with  acute  sight  will  see 
several  times  as  much  in  a  scene  as  will  the  person  whose  sight 
is  dulled,  and  his  description  is,  of  course,  much  more  to  be 
relied  upon.   The  other  person,  however,  through  not  being  able  to 
observe  all,  might  deny  that  it  existed.  The  person  with  acute 
hearing  will  get  many  times  the  pleasure  from  listening  to 
music  that  the  average  person  would.  The  people  with  the  most 
acute  senses  get  a  more  perfect  mental  picture  and,  therefore, 
have  a  better  memory- -that  is,  they  can  call  back  to  them,  when 
they  desire  it,  all  that  they  have  seen  or  heard. 

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When  we  recall  a  picture  of  the  past  (all  experiences  appear 
as  pictures  before  the  mind's  eye)  we  mentally  run  over  the  brain 
wires  as  one  would  Over  the  keys  of  a  piano,  and  when  the  cor- 
rect combination  is  touched  the  system  of  nerves  responds  and  we 
draw  it  to  us  again  where  we  may  review  it  in  all  its  details, 
and  hold  it  until  we  wish  to  let  it  go  and  call  some  other  in 
its  place.   By  this  power  of  thought  we  can  call  to  us  unlimited 
knowledge  and  constantly  pass  through  any  scene  or  part  of  the 
world  we  have  ever  visited. 


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LESSON  V. 

What  we  have  learned  to  term  ** thoughts'*  are  flashes  of  intel- 
ligence which  we  have  attracted  to  us. 

Thoughts  or  intelligence  are  not  contained  within  a  book;  it 
is  made  of  paper  and  ink,  but  the  signs  or  letters  therein  act 
upon  your  brain  through  your  sight,  just  as  when  you  look  at  a 
flower 'or  at  the  sky,  they  stimulate  thought  vibrations;  therefore, 
when  you  read  the  works  of  an  author,  though  his  body  may  be  dead, 
your  senses  vibrate  the  responsive  chord  in  your  brain  and  you 
are  at  once  in  tune  with  the  intelligence  he  drew  upon  when  he 
did  the  writing. 

No  one,  no  matter  how  intellectual  he  may  be,  can  take  from 
humanity  one  particle  of  knowledge  when  his  body  dies,  for  no 
man  has  any  intelligence  within  himself.  If  all  the  people  in 
the  world  but  one  should  suddenly  die,  that  one  would  have  at  his 
command  just  as  much  intelligence  as  any  man  ever  had  before. 

In  reading  a  "book,  you  virtually  read  between  the  lines- -you 
get  more  than  is  printed  on  the  page.  That  is  why  it  creates 
the  various  sensations  and  emotions.  It  is  not  the  words  but  the 
thoughts  which  you  attract  to  you  that  make  you  feel- -that  make 
an  impression.   Sometimes  but  a  word  is  necessary  to  put  you  in 
harmony- -one  chord  is  struck  and  instantly  all  the  associated 

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thoughts  rush  in.   They  come  to  your  brain  for  the  first  time. 
From  where?  Not  from  within  but  from  the  Great  Source  of  all 
intelligence . 

Have  you  not  had  thoughts  come  to  you  which  were  seemingly 
not  the  result  of  anything  you  had  done,  seen  or  heard?  They 
just  came  to  you  without  desire  or  effort  on  your  part,  and  yet 
they  seemed  so  vivid,  so  real,  that  you  felt  they  were  a  part  of 
you.  Those  same  thoughts  have  returned  to  you  again  and  again. 
It  was  not  from  the  brain  memory  these  thoughts  came  the  first 
time,  or  you  would  have  recognized  their  connection  with  your 
past  life.   Then  why  should  they  come  from  memory  the  second  or 
third  time?  Where  they  came  from  once  it  is  reasonable  to 
believe  they  can  come  from  again.   The  means  that  carried  them 
to  you  once  could  do  it  the  second  and  third  and  the  hundredth 
time.   There  would  be  no  reason  for  using  two  methods  of  doing 
one  thing  when  one  was  sufficient- -one  for  the  thought  when  it 
first  came  and  another  for  its  future  visits.   The  process  and 
faculty  that  brings  one  thought  picture  to  you  brings  them  all. 
All  that  is  necessary  is  a  like  condition  to  produce  a  like  r>. 
suit.   The  same  cause  must  always  produce  the  same  effect. 

You  know  that  all  the  things  which  you  recall  to  you  come  in 
thought  and  that  these  thoughts  are  represented  in  your  brain  by 
pictures.   If  they  did  not  come  as  pictures,  you  could  not  under' 

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stand  them.  When  you  see  the  word  * 'horse''  you  at  once  see  with 
your  mental  eye  the  picture  o'f  a  horse.  While  it  is  true  that 
you  can  recall  pictures  you  have  seen  before,  it  is  also  true 
that  you  can  retire  to  a  dark  room,  and  by  the  same  mental  action- 
bring  to  you  scenes"  and  thoughts  that  you  have  never  experienced 
before.   These  could  not  have  been  stored  away  in  cells  in  your 
brain,  or  if  they  were  how  did  they  get  there  without  your 
knowledge,  without  your  having  experienced  or  seen  them? 

If  our  brains  •  had^to  depend  upon  what  we  see  and  hear  and 
upon  the  amount  of  it  we  are  able  to  store  away  in  that  unlocated 
part  called  memory,  our  opportunities  for  education  would  indeed 
be  very  limited.   If  such  were  so,  then  how  could  we  account  for 
the  new  ideas  that  come  to  us;  for  the  natural  musicians  who  have 
never  taken  a  lesson  from  a  teacher,  the  brilliant  ideas  of 
geniuses --the  men  who  do  great  things  which  have  never  been  done 
before  and  for  the  fact  that  all  men/do  their  best  work,  that 
is,  attract  the  best  ideas  for  their'  purpose,  when  alone  in  se- 
clusion away  from  the  outer  worldv  How  are  we  to  account  for  the 
facts  I  am  setting  forth  in  these  instructions,  when  almost 
every  person  who  considers  the  subject  at  all  accepts  the  theory 
that  we  ha-ve  a  place  in  our  heads  set  apart  as  a  storehouse  for 
memory? 

The  facts  I  am  giving  here  are  certainly  not  the  result  of 

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anything  I  have  heard  or  read,  but  instead  are  in  direct  op- 
position to  the  ideas  held  by  the  general  public.  The  first  of 
these  thoughts  came  to  me  one  day  while  I  was  making  an  examina- 
tion of  the  construction  of  the  gray  matter  of  the  brain  of  a 
dissected  subject  at  a  medical  clinic.  The  thoughts  were  only 
a  few  at  first,  but  they  interested  me  and  as  a  result  have  re- 
turned to  me  repeatedly,  and  each  time  bring  additional  facts 
with  them. 

If  it  were  a  fact  that  each  thing  we  see  prints  its  picture 
upon  the  brain,  and  that  memory  is  the  recalling  of  these  pictures 
again  before  our  mental  eye,  what  do  you  suppose  would  occur 
when  we  wished  to  recall  the  picture  of  our  mother,  our  father,  or 
some  ornament  or  piece  of  furniture  which  we  had  seen  hundreds  and 
perhaps  thousands  of  times?  When  we  called  for  the  brain 
picture,  would  we  not  be  confronted  by  a  hundred,  or,  possibly, 
a  thousand  pictures  all  alike  or  differing  very  slightly? 
Would  we  not  be  forced  to  look  at  the  picture  of  one  hundred 
chairs  instead  of  one?  If  I  looked  at  my  pencil  one  hundred 
times  in  one  hour,  what  wisdom  or  economy  would  there  be  in  Nature 
if  it  made  one  hundred  separate  pictures  of  that  pencil  in  my 
brain;  and  yet,  if  the  brain  records  pictures  at  all,  it  must 
take  all  the  pictures  or  there  could  be  no  memory.  It  is  very 

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evident  that  the  old  theory  of  memory  has  not  a  single  fact  to"" 
rest  upon.  It  is  illogical  and  impossible. 

Another  fact  we  must  not  overlook  is  that  if  the  so-called 
brain  cell  is  to  retain  a  scene  to  act  as  memory,  to  be  recalled 
at  some  future  date,  that  cell  must  be  indestructible;  it  must 
not  die  or  be  in  any  way  altered.  The  cells  of  the  brain  are 
of  physical  construction,  made  of  the  same  materials  as  other 
parts  of  the  body,  built  up  by  food  and  torn  down  by  exercise 
and  wasted  by  inactivity.   It  is  a  fact  that  any  cell  tissue  or 
muscle  left  unused  for  a  few  months  will  disintegrate  and  dis- 
appear.  Then  how  about  recalling  by  memory  something  we  ex- 
perienced several  years  ago?  Where  would  the  unused  cell  be  and 
where  the  picture?  We  know  that  we  can  recall  clearly  things 
which  happened  in  our  childhood  and  yet  there  are  none  of  the 
cells  of  those  days  in  our  brain  today.  Science  tells  us  that 
the  brain  cells  are  destroyed  and  built  up  again  about  every  sixty 
days.   The  more  we  consider  it  the  more  impossible  the  theory 
becomes,  and  the  more  we  wonder  how  the  public  could  have  be- 
lieved it  for  so  many  years. 


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LESSON  VI. 

How  much  of  what  you  look  at  during  a  day  do  you  see?  Do 
you  know  that  you  see  but  a  very  small  part  of  what  comes  before 
your  eyes?  Have  you  ever  passed  people  on  the  street  and,  while 
you  must  have  been  looking  directly  at  them,  did  not  see  them? 
It  is  a  very  common  occurrence  for  us  to  be  looking  directly  at 
some  object,  or  some  scene,  and  at  the  same  time  have  our 
occupied  with  thoughts  belonging  to  some  other  subject  and  not 
see  that  which  is  directly  in  front  of  us.  Under  these  con- 
ditions the  brain  does  not  record  the  picture  for  future  refer- 
ence.  This  should  prove  to  you  that  the  brain  does  not  photo- 
graph the  scenes  that  pass  before  the  eye. 

It  is  only  when  we  are  conscious  of  the  vibrations  that  come 
to  us  that  we  respond  and  allow  them  to  become  a  part  of  our- 
selves.  Consequently,  everything  which  attracts  our  attention, 
has  found  ^  responsive  vibration  and  is,  therefore,  exerting  an 
influence  on  us,  and  is  helping  in  shaping  our  lives  for  good 
or  ill,  for  success  or  failure,  for  health  or  sickness. 

That  part  of  any  scene  or  experience  which  does  not  arouse 
in  us  thoughts  to  translate  and  express  it  cannot  be  recalled 
or  remembered.  That  is  why  when  two  or  more  persons  view  the 
same  subject,  no  two  ever  describe  it  exactly  alike --neither  saw 

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it  just  alike.   They  are  only  able  to  tell  of  the  particular 
parts  that  made  an  impression  on  them- -the  vibrations  from  which 
reached  their  brain- -but  are  unable  to  describe  the  other  parts „ 

Some  people  can  look  upon  evil  and  not  see  it  and  yet  in- 
stantly find  the  good  in  everything;  while  others  can  see  only 
the  evil  and  the  good  escapes  them  entirely.  Again,  I  repeat, 
it  is  not  what  you  look  at  that  you  see,  for  you  can  at  any 
time  close  your  eyes  and  still  see  more  than  you  could  with 
them  open.  No  one  can  see  what  he  is  not  prepared  to  understand. 
The  person  who  sees  the  evil  does  so  because  of  his  previous 
thoughts  and  experiences,  and  likewise  the  person  who  sees  the 
good.   The  same  can  be  said  of  those  who  see  failure  in  every- 
thing. They  are  to  be  pitied,  for  they  can  see  only  the  weak 
points  and  are  blind  to  the  greater  possibilities  which  sur- 
round them.  What  we  see  comes  to  us  because  we  have  attracted 
it.   The  wisdom  to  be  learned  from  this  is  that  it  pays  to  be  "• 
an  optimist.   To  become  an  optimist  one  must  be  hopeful,  look 
for  and  see  only  the  bright  and  useful  in  life.  If  you  are  not 
already  an  optimist,  make  up  your  mind  that  you  will  be  one. 
As  soon  as  you  have  arrived  at  this  mental  state,  you  will 
begin  to  draw  to  you  the  thoughts  and  ideas  that  will  assist 
you  in  becoming  just  what  you  want  to  be. 

The  Secret  of  Memory  lies  in  understanding  how  to  think  so  as 

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to  attract  information  when  it  is  needed  and  not  in  storing  up 
millions  of  pictures  in  our  brains  that  we  may  never  again  have 
use  for. 

The  method  used  in  our  schools  for  * 'training  the  memory* '(?) 
is  extremely  crude.  It  attempts  to  make  an  impression  on  the 
brain  by  repeating  a  subject  from  ten  to  one  hundred  times.  If 
the  brain  registered  or  recorded  impressions,  would  there  not 
be  from  ten  to  one  hundred  separate  impressions  of  the  same 
subject  recorded  instead  of  one?  It  is  possible,  however,  for 
a  child  (or  in  fact  anyone)  to  repeat  a  subject  in  which  it  is 
not  interested,  one  hundred  or  one  thousand  times  and  still  be 
unable  to  recall  it  twenty-four  hours  after.  The  reason!  It 
failed  to  arouse  a  responsive  thought,  consequently  it  did  not 
become  a  part  of  the  person.   Such  methods  waste  valuable  time, 
and  instead  of  educating  they  dull  the  intellectual  machinery 
and  rob  it  of  the  power  of  attraction  and  keen  perception.  They 
destroy  the  student's  originality  and  initiative,  and  make  him 
a  slave  to  a  plodding  system.   That  is  why  self-educated  people^ 
are  more  successful  than  those  educated  in  colleges. 

To  train  the  brain  to  recall  our  thoughts  and  experiences 
we  must  train  it  to  think  correctly,  to  be  receptive,  to  be  quick 
in  action,  responsive  to  the  dictates  of  the  mind,  keen  in 
perception  and  accurate  in  its  observation  of  details.  In  other  | 

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words,  it  must  be  sufficiently  acute  and  sensitive  to  all  that 
comes  before  its  vision  to  look  sharply  atx  every  picture  and 
analyze  carefully  every  thought  that  comes  before  the  eye  of  the 
mind.   For  that  which  we  analyze  and  think"bver  becomes  during 
the  process  of  analyzation  a  part  of  our  very  being.  The  fact 
that  it  has  aroused  our  attention  indicates  some  degree  of  har- 
mony existing  between  it  and  us.  Therefore,  the  vibrations  are 
transmitted  through  our  brains  to  the  particular  parts  of  our 
bodies  that  would  be  interested  in  the  thought,  and  these  vi- 
brations stimulate  the  circulation  of  the  blood  in  those  parts, 
creating  new  life  and  action  there.  Next,  these  newly  aroused 
parts,  cells  or  organs  send  back  a  response  to  the  brain,  and 
from  the  brain  it  goes  forth  to  be  taken  up  again  by  other 
brains,  or  by  the  particular  brain  for  which  it  is  intended. 
By  this  process  the  brain-wires  are  tuned  to  correspond  with 
the  physical  needs  and  desires.  As  soon  as  this  process  is  com- 
pleted, other  thoughts  of  the  same  character,  or  those  related 
to  it,  can  enter  the  brain,  travel  over  the  body,  leave  their 
impression  and  depart  without  effort  on  the  part  of  the  person. 
It  is  no  trouble  to  attract  a  line  of  thoughts  after  we  are 
mentally  and  physically  tuned  by  the  vibrations  of  the  subject. 
In  fact,  after  the  action  has  continued  for  a  certain  length  of 
time,  it  becomes  a  habit  and  we  find  it  almost  impossible  to 

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prevent  them  re-occurring  or,  in  other  words,  we  can't  forget. 

The  thoughts  that  do  not  correspond  to  the  vibrations  of  some 
part  of  our  body  are  not  attracted  to  us.  Therefore,  you  can 
set  it  down  as  a  fact  that  every  thought  that  comes  to  you 
strongly  has  a  significance  for  you.  It  may  be  for  your  good 
or  for  your  destruction;  that  you  must  determine,  and  then  learn 
where  and  how  to  draw  the  line  between  the  good  and  the  harmful. 

Did  you  ever  have  a  person  attempt  to  explain  some  plan, 
method  or  scheme  to  you,  and  although  you  paid  strict  attention, 
and  the  language  used  was  good  and  the  argument  seemed  mathe- 
matical and  logical,  yet  when  he  had  finished  you  were  unable 
to  understand  it,  or  to  understand  why  you  could  not  grasp  his 
meaning?  You  realized  that  he  had  seemingly  given  a  very  de- 
tailed explanation,  and,  therefore,  you  disliked  to  ask  him  to 
repeat  it.   I  will  tell  you  why  you  did  not  understand  it. 
The  elements  and  conditions  concerned  in  the  plan  were  new  to 
you.   Your  brain  had  never  entertained  the  particular  combina- 
tion of  thought  vibrations  before.  Therefore,  the  statements 
could  not  attract  a  responsive  vibration  from  your  brain  be- 
cause it  was  not  tuned  in  accord  with  them.  However,  the  mortifi- 
cation of  not  understanding  would  in  such  cases  act  as  a  force  to 
make  you  concentrate  your  attention  on  the  subject  and  cause  you 
to  think  of  it,  at  it  and  around  it,  until  your  brain  finally 

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formed  the  correct  combination  of  vibrations,  that  would  bring 
you  in  touch  with  and  give  you  light  on  the  subject. 

While  the  person  was  with  you  trying  to  explain  the  points  you 
failed  to  understand  him,  but  after  being  left  alone  your  brain 
kept  on  running  over  the  brain-wires  until  you  struck  the  right 
combination  and  the  knowledge  flashed  in  upon  you.  It  came,  not 
from  the  words  he  had  spoken,  but  from  the  thoughts  (knowledge) 
you  attracted  to  you  by  concentration.  What  you  learned  about 
this  subject  did  not  result  from  what  you  remembered,  as  you  did 
not  understand  the  points  to  remember,  but  it  came  from  the  intel- 
ligence you  attracted  to  you  while  alone. 

In  support  of  this  statement  we  can  look  back  in  history  to  the 
records  of  the  many  philosophers  and  scientists  who,  through 
close  application  and  concentration,  had  evolved  and  advanced 
ideas  that  were  so  new  to  the  people  that  they  could  not  under- 
stand them,  and  therefore  called  the  exponents  cranks  or  fanatics 
and  ridiculed  their  teachings.   Without  exception  later  genera- 
tions recognized  the  wisdom  of  their  words  and  sang  their  praises 
and  erected  monuments  in  their  honor.  It  is  common  to  hear  these 
great  minds  referred  to  as  having  been  born  ahead  of  their  times. 
Most  of  these  great  men  died  unrespected  and  misunderstood  by  the 
people,  for  it  .is  a  peculiarity  of  human  nature  that  each  man  sets 
himself  up  as  a  judge,  and  without  authority  measures  the  knowl- 

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edge  of  all  mankind  by  his  own  standard  of  mentality.  If  any 
other  man's  intelligence  rises  above  his  ability  to  comprehend,  he 
discredits  it  and  terms  him  a  crank  and  a  fit  subject  for  an  in- 
sane asylum.  The  person  who  criticizes  the  logic  and  wisdom  of 
another  because  he  cannot  understand  it,  by  that  very  act  con- 
fesses to  a  lower  state  of  intelligence. 


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''Mind  is  the  master  of  the  man.'   This  sentence  contains  more 
truth  than  appears  upon  the  surface.  The  mind  (usually  termed 
the  Soul)  is  the  life  or  the  Divine  part,  while  the  man  is  the 
physical  part- -the  machine  used  by  the  mind  in  promoting  its 
development --through  and  by  which  it  communicates  with  the  things 
of  the  earth. 

It  is  a  common  occurrence  to  have  people  ask,  ''If  my  soul  is 
immortal  and  has  existed  in  the  past,  then  why  cannot  I  remember 
what  has  occurred  in  my  life  before  I  took  possession  of  the 
present  body?''  As  the  body  is  only  an  instrument  used  by  the 
mind  and  as  there  is  no  such  thing  as  memory,  and  as  specific 
knowledge  cannot  be  owned  and  controlled  by  anyone  (it  is  ours 
only  to  use)  ,  why  should  we  expect  to  carry  it  away  when  we  depart 
and  then  bring  it  back  to  another  body?  As  the  body  is  only  a  machine 
used  by  the  mind  in  acquiring  knowledge  for  its  development,  how 
could  we  expect  it  to  have  a  memory?  If  it  had,  what  would 
become  of  it  when  death  came?  And  if  the  mind  had  a  memory  for 
detailed  events  it  would  have  no  use  for  the  brain  in  the  body. 
Each  is  essential  to  the  other  but  neither  possesses  a  memory. 

I  believe  that  the  accumulated  results  of  our  brain  action 
are  preserved  and  represented  in  the  advancement  and  development 

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of  the  mind,  just  as  our  bodies  are  the  accumulated  result  of 
the  actions  of  our  past;  but  I  do  not  believe  that  the  details 
are  kept  on  record.   I  do  not  say  that  it  is  impossible  for 
us  to  have  any  recollections  of  our  previous  existence,  for  I 
believe  that  we  do  very  often  get  glimpses  of  the  past.  If  not, 
how  are  we  to  account  for  the  flashes  of  intelligence  that  often 
come  to  us  as  thought  scenes  that  seem  very  familiar  to  us, 
except  that  we  cannot  place  the  time  when  they  were  a  part  of 
our  experiences? 

I  believe  that  the  experiences  and  thoughts  of  previous  ex- 
istences have  developed  our  minds  to  their  present  degree  of 
perfection,  and  that  the  harmony  existing  between  the  mind  and 
these  thoughts  does  tune  the  brain  of  the  new  body  so  that  a 
certain  line  of  thought  can  come  to  it- -that  therein  lies  the 
connection  between  one  life  of  the  body  and  the  next.  This,  I 
believe,  is  the  explanation  of  the  early  traits  shown  by 
children.   To  me,  it  accounts  for  the  ' 'naturally  bright, ' 
* 'naturally  good,''  and  "naturally  bad'  '  children.  The  peculi- 
arities exhibited  by  children  are  an  index  to  the  development  of 
the  mind  which  has  taken  possession  of  the  body. 

It  is  very  easy  for  some  children  to  be  good,  because  only 
good  thoughts  are  attracted  to  their  brains,  and  it  is  equally 
as  hard  for  others,  because  their  brains  are  tuned  in  harmony 

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with  bad  thoughts.   No  child  wants  to  be  bad.  If  you  will 
reason  with  it,  it  will  tell  you  that  it  wants  to  do  right, 
but  it  can't  help  doing  wrong.   It,  of  course,  does  not  understand 
the  force  that  is  directing  and  controlling  it.  You,  dear 
reader,  do,  for  I  have  told  you.  Now  let  me  tell  you  another 
little  secret,  one  that  will  redeem  every  child  (young  or  old) 
from  evil  and  make  of  it  a  perfect  being. 

All  knowledge  comes  through  the  brain  in  the  form  of  thought - 
picture  messages.   Now  no  two  opposite  thoughts  can  enter  or 
remain  in  the  brain  at  the  same  time.  The  brain  cannot  enter- 
tain two  separate  subjects  at  once  any  more  than  you  can  speak 
or  write  two  words  at  exactly  the  same  time,  or  a  musician  play 
two  pieces  of  music,  or  a  telegraph  operator  dispatch  two  sep- 
arate messages  at  the  same  time.  The  rule  is,  one  thing  at  a 
time.   Then  it  is  evident  that  any  thought  in  action  has  the 
full  control  of  the  brain  and  body  until  such  time  as  it  volunta- 
rily gives  way  to  another.   Herein  lies  the  secret.  Keep  the 
child's  brain  so  fully  occupied  with  noble,  elevating  work  and 
thoughts  that  there  will  be  no  time  or  room  for  the  entertain- 
ment of  undesirable  thoughts.  As  the  thoughts  we  entertain  leave 
their  impression  on  the  body  and  generate  in  it  a  responsive  vi- 
bration it  is  made  easy  to  attract  that  same  thought  again  and 
again  because  the  brain  and  body  are  tuned  in  harmony  with  it. 

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If  you  would  stamp  out  the  evil  thoughts  from  any  brain  and 
transform  evil  into  good,  be  sure  never  to  speak  of  the  evil  to 
the  person;  for  even  to  mention  it  is  to  call  it  back  to  his 
brain,  and  the  more  elaborately  you  picture  the  evil  and  the  more 
severely  you  criticize  the  wrong  the  more  vividly  you  bring  it 
back  and  the  more  indelibly  it  becomes  impressed  upon  the  entire 
being.   Likewise  the  discussing  of  the  subject  and  the  picturing 
of  its  horrors  in  your  brain  will  have  an  undesirable  effect  upon 
your  morals  and  your  health. 

We  cannot  even  discuss  unpleasant  subjects  without  being  harmed 
by  them.  That  is  why  so  many  who  start  out  to  destroy  the  evil  in 
the  world  and  reform  humanity,  soon  fall  a  victim  to  that  evil. 
It  is  a  common  expression  that,  **It  takes  a  thief  to  catch  a 
thief.'   And  it  also  takes  bad  people  to  find  the  bad  in  others, 
for  really  good  people  could  not  find  the  evil;  they  would  not 
know  what  they  were  looking  for,  as  experience  is  the  only  teacher. 

This  is  the  science  back  of  the  advice: 

'  *  Think  you  are  well  and  that  all  is  well  with  you 

And  Nature  will  hear  your  thoughts  and  make  them  true . ' 

To  teach  children  to  remember,  you  have  only  to  teach  them  to 
pay  close  attention  to  all  they  do  or  read.  To  gain  this  atten- 
tion all  subjects  must  be  made  interesting.  There  must  be  object 

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lessons  and  a  reason  or  motive  shown.  Some  future  benefit  must 
be  held  out  as  a  premium  for  learning.  Study  must  never  be  pic- 
tured as  a  duty  but  as  a  means  of  obtaining  the  power  and  abil- 
ity to  accomplish,  to  succeed,  to  excel.  Keep  before  them  the 
many  advantages  of  education  and  of  right  thinking.  Point  out  ex- 
amples in  the  lives  of  men  and  women  that  illustrate  how  they  have 
gained  honor  or  material  possessions  as  a  result  of  education 
through  correct  thinking.   Inspire  them  with  the  desire  by  enter- 
ing into  the  work  with  them,  by  keeping  up  their  enthusiasm  and  by 
liberal  praise  of  work  accomplished.  Don't  find  fault  with  the 
failures  they  make,  and  don't,  scold  or  nag.  Set  the  example  and 
explain  all  failures  as  a  misunderstanding  of  the  subject,  and 
proceed  to  help  them  find  the  missing  link. 

Teach  them  the  value  of  thought,  and  explain  where  knowledge 
comes  from  and  how  to  attract  it.  Show  them  the  importance  of 
spending  one  hour  of  each  day  in  silent  concentration.  A  child 
brought  up  in  this  way  will  have  no  need  for  a  memory.  He  will 
advance  in  learning  and  innate  knowledge  twice  as  rapidly  as  other 
children  and  will  be  able  to  recall  all  desirable  information 
when  needed.  More  than  that,  he  will  gain  such  control  of  his 
thinking  that  his  wisdom  and  executive  ability  will  be  marveled 
at  by  all  who  meet  him. 

The  great  drawback  to  the  people  of  this  age  is,  that  they  do 

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not  know  how  to  think  or  how  knowledge  is  attracted  to  them. 
Therefore,  what  they  do  acquire  is  gained  more  by  accident  than 
by  method.  I  believe  that  anyone  who  will  follow  for  one  year  the 
instructions  set  forth  in  these  lessons  will  acquire  more  knowl- 
edge and  gain  a  greater  self-control  than  he  has  done  in  all  his 
past  experience. 


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LESSON  VIII. 

Concentration  is  a  word  much  in  use  but  little  understood  when 
applied  to  the  mental  faculties.  Most  people  think  of  it  as  a 
laborious  process  of  compelling  the  brain  to  do  certain  things. 
This  is  where  they  err,  because  of  their  lack  of  familiarity  with 
the  subject. 

Concentration  as  applied  to  the  brain  means  to  focus  the  atten- 
tion on  one  thing  at  a  time.   It  means  to  hold  the  mental  eye 
steady,  and  not  allow  it  to  wander  aimlessly  from  object  to  object 
and  from  thought  to  thought.   To  do  this  you  have  but  to  exercise 
your  will  and  a  little  patience. 

So  many  people  drift  through  life,  being  tossed  first  one  way 
and  then  another,  like  a  boat  on  the  ocean  without  a  rudder,  and 
all  because  they  do  not  take  advantage  of  their  birthright,  select_Ju 
their  course  and  steer  their  own  boat.  These  people  blame  fate, 
when  the  fault  is  entirely  their  own.  Many,  through  the  lack  of 
concentration  and  self-control,  allow  their  brain-wires  to  be 
operated  by  every  passing  vibration  and  yet  never  retain  or  use 
any  of  the  thoughts  or  ideas  that  flash  through  their  brain. 
These  same  people  will  tell  you  that  they  have  a  very  active 
brain,  that  there  is  a  constant  panorama  of  scenes  and  thoughts 
passing  before  their  vision  day  and  night.  Study  them,  and  you 

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will  find  that  they  are  generally  good  natured,  but  never  ener- 
getic or  really  ambitious.   I  never  knew  one  who  ever  did  any 
great  or  important  work.   They  simply  drift,  because  they  don't 
understand  the  necessity  of  using  the  rudder. 

The  control  you  have  gained  over  your  thinking  instrument,  and 
the  ability  you  have  acquired  for  operating  it,  marks  the  degree 
of  success  or  failure  that  is  just  ahead  of  you. 

In  my  work  of  instructing  sixty  thousand  students  in  the  Sci- 
ence of  Thought,  I  have  had  sufficient  actual  experience  to  make 
me  confident  of  the  truth  of  what  I  am  telling  you.  These  lessons 
are  not  based  on  theory,  but  upon  actual  experience,  thoroughly 
tested. 

I  know  that  you  would  like  to  be  able  to  recall,  when  desired, 
certain  of  your  daily  experiences  and  forget  others.  Then  follow 
me  and  I  will  direct  you  how  to  do  this.  Begin  today  to  pay  close 
attention  to  all  that  is  said  to  you  or  in  your  hearing,  and  when 
the  conversation  is  finished  you  are  to  mentally  go  over  it  again 
from  the  beginning  to  the  end,  to  find  if  you  have  it  all  clearly. 
Associate  the  important  points  in  the  conversation  with  that  part 
of  your  life  it  is  most  likely  to  affect.  Then  whenever  that  part 
is  up  for  consideration  or  action  you  will  find  the  conversation 
will  return  to  your  brain  clearly  and  distinctly.  Do  the  same 
with  all  that  you  read  which  you  wish  to  recall.  Read  slowly  and 

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endeavor  to  attract  the  full  meaning  of  the  writer. 

The  things  you  do  not  wish  to  remember  you  should  pass  over 
lightly  and  make  no  effort  to  associate  them  with  your  life.  A 
guard  against  the  entrance  of  undesirable  thoughts  is  a  brain 
filled  with  desirable,  useful  thoughts.  While  the  brain  is  fully 
occupied,  no  outside  thoughts  can  enter.  Keep  your  brain  busy  and 
unpleasant  thoughts  will  find  no  place  to  lodge. 

In  looking  at  a  scene  or  an  article,  first  take  in  the  general 
outline,  possible  distance,  size,  color,  etc.;  then  focus  your  at- 
tention on  one  point  at  a  time,  taking  in  its  characteristic  de- 
tails and  keeping  your  thoughts  wholly  on  the  subject.  It  is 
better  to  have  an  accurate  knowledge  of  half  of  it  than  to  go  away 
with  but  an  indistinct  impression  of  its  entirety.  The  more  you 
concentrate  your  attention  on  the  subject  the  easier  you  will  be 
able  to  recall  the  scene. 

The  concentration  of  sight  and  thought  will  rapidly  develop  an 
acuteness  of  perception  that  will  make  it  possible  for  you  to  take 
in  more  of  what  you  look  at  and  in  much  less  time  than  formerly. 
Keep  before  your  brain  the  fact  that  you  are  looking,  listening, 
feeling,  smelling  and  tasting  for  the  purpose  of  coming  into  harmony 
with  all  you  experience  so  you  can  recall  it  when  you  need  it. 

It  is  the  person  with  the  most  acute  senses  that  gets  the 
clearest  understanding  and  is  able  to  recall  his  experiences  most 

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easily,  just  as  the  man  who  looks  through  clear  glass  will  see 
more  than  the  one  who  looks  through  colored  glass.  Therefore, 
when  you  smell  you  should  analyze  the  odor;  when  you  taste  you 
should  compare  it  with  other  things;  when  you  listen  it  should  be 
with  undivided  attention,  that  you  may  not  miss  part  and  arrive  at 
a  wrong  conclusion.   When  you  look  remember  that  that  which  is 
worth  the  expenditure  of  time  is  worth  the  closest  attention  you 
can  give  it.   Take  in  the  color,  size,  distance,  etc.  Judge  size 
by  comparison,  and  don't  make  rash  guesses.  When  you  feel,  ana- 
lyze the  article,  its  texture,  shape,  hardness  or  softness,  so  that 
you  could  recognize  it  again  with  your  eyes  closed.  When  speaking 
,be  careful  to  say  only  what  you  are  confident  is  the  truth.  This 
develops  accuracy  and  gives  you  confidence  in  yourself,  and  also 
causes  other 'people  to  have  confidence  in  you. 

One  of  the  most  valuable  methods  of  keeping  your  brain  tuned  in 
harmony  with  your  daily  experiences  is  to  make  it  a  practice  every 
night  before  you  retire  to  review  all  the  experiences  of  the  day, 
beginning  with  the  first  act  and  following  each  consecutively  to 
the  end.   This  review  just  before  you  pass  into  sleep  will  be  in- 
valuable.  The  vibrations  will  again  be  carried  to  the  body,  where 
during  the  night  they  will  tune  it  and  the  brain  in  harmony;  then 
you  cannot  forget,  for  those  thoughts  can  be  attracted  and  re- 
called whenever  you  need  them. 

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If  you  want  to  forget  certain  thoughts  that  are  undesirable, 
cease  to  review  them,  and  whenever  you  are  conscious  that  they  are 
returning  to  you  immediately  concentrate  your  entire  attention  on 
your  work,  or  on  some  other  line  of  thought.  This  will  have  the 
desired  effect,  for  no  two  lines  of  thought  can  hold  a  place  in 
the  brain  at  the  same  time.   If  you  accidentally  hear  or  see  some- 
thing you  don't  wish  to  entertain,  or  someone  tries  to  tell  you 
something  you  do  not  wish  to  hear,  change  your  thoughts  quickly  by 
thinking  of  some  good  advice  or  some  motto.  Then  make  your  brain 
* 'get  busy''  on  important  matters,  and  although  you  may  hear  the 
voice,  the  conversation  will  have  no  effect  and  you  will  quickly 
forget  it. 


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LESSON  IX. 

To  be  able  to  recall  the  ordinary  things  of  life  is  not  enough. 
To  be  successful  one  must  be  able  to  attract  and  recall  the  spe- 
cial kind  of  thoughts  and  ideas  he  needs --those  that  will  help  him 
in  carrying  out  his  life's  purpose.  To  recall  such  thoughts  he 
must  first  have  experienced  them. 

To  attract  thoughts  and  ideas  that  would  not  ordinarily  come  to 
a  person,  he  must  know  how  to  think,  and,  as  I  have  said  before, 
when  the  law  of  correct  thinking  is  learned  the  Secret  of  Memory 
is  found. 

My  advice  to  you  is  to  select  an  hour,  or  even  a  half -hour, 
that  you  can  set  aside  each  day  for  the  purpose  of  concentrating 
your  attention  on  some  particular  idea  on  which  you  desire  to  gain 
a  more  complete  knowledge.  Never  attempt  to  concentrate  on  more 
than  one  idea  in  the  same  hour.  On  very  important  ideas  it  is 
often  well  to  concentrate  on  the  same  one  for  several  days  or 
until  you  are  satisfied  with  what  you  have  learned.  Always  spend 
the  hour  of  concentration  entirely  alone. 

To  begin,  select  your  subject,  be  it  business,  work,  litera- 
ture, music,  an  invention  or  any  other  thing  of  which  you  are  de- 
sirous of  learning  more.  Next  select  a  thought  that  pertains  to 
the  subject.   Then  centralize  or  focus  your  attention  on  that 

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thought.   Keep  thinking  of  it  until  you  have  brought  your  whole 
being  in  tune  with.  it.   Then  one  by  one  the  new  ideas  you  have  at- 
tracted will  enter  the  brain.   The  longer  and  more  carefully  you 
concentrate,  the  more  rapidly  the  ideas  will  come  and  the  more  im- 
portant they  will  become.   New  lights  will  be  thrown  upon  the  sub- 
ject and  you  will  learn  much  that  you  could  not  have  found  out  in 
any  other  way,  for  the  knowledge  you  will  attract  will  come  from 
all  parts  of  the  universe --parts  to  which  your  body  could  never 
travel.  What  you  learn  during  this  hour  of  concentration  each  day 
you  will  not  forget.   It  will'  return  to  you  whenever  you  need  it. 
There  is  one  thing  I  must  caution  you  about,  and  that  is  to  not 
allow  stray  thoughts  to  enter  your  brain  and  take  your  attention 
from  the  subject  you  are  concentrating  on.  To  guard  against  this 
I  have  found  nothing  so  useful  as  a  blackboard  and  a  piece  of 
white  chalk.   Where  it  is  not  convenient  to  secure  -a  blackboard, 
a  large  piece  of  black  paper  will  do.  On  entering  your  room  for 
the  hour  of  silent  concentration,  write  on  the  blackboard  in  large 
letters,  with  white  chalk,  the  few  words  which  represent  the  sub- 
ject of  your  concentration.   Sit  at  a  distance  of  three  or  four 
feet  from  the  words  and  keep  your  eyes  on  them.  As  long  as  you 
actually  see  those  words  no  thought  can  come  to  you  that  is  not  in 
some  way  associated  with  them.   If  some  foreign  thoughts  do  enter 
your  brain  it  is  a  sign  that  your  brain  has  strayed  from  its  pur- 

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pose.   The  moment  you  see  that  you  are  drifting  from  the  subject 
bring  your  eyes  and  attention  back  suddenly  to  the  written  words. 

Don't  expect  that  you  can  concentrate  perfectly  from  the  first.f 
If  you  could  you  would  not  need  these  lessons.  Persevere,  for 
after  each  day's  exercise  you  will  find  it  easier  and  easier  to 
control  your  brain  and  to  dictate  on  what  subject  it  shall  or 
shall  not  entertain  thoughts.   Until  you  can  go  through  this 
hour's  exercise  without  drifting  from  the  subject  you  are  not  yet 
master  of  your  brain,  you  have  not  learned  how  to  think  practi- 
cally and  usefully.  However,  when  you  have  accomplished  this  not 
very  difficult  task  you  will  have  gained  the  power  to  control  not 
only  your  own  but  the  brains  of  thousands  of  people.  You  will 
have  learned  how  to  attract  knowledge  from  the  Great  Source  of  all 
intelligence  and  'from  the  brains  of  those  you  daily  come  in  con- 
tact with,  and  also  from  those  who  have  already  developed  the 
ideas  on  which  you  are  seeking  knowledge.  You  will  have  proven  to 
your  satisfaction  that  the  mind  is  the  master  of  men. 

You  may  offer  the  objection  that  you  cannot  afford  to  spend  an 
hour  or  even  a  half -hour  each  day  for  concentration.  Let  me  tell 
you  that  you  cannot  afford  not  to  spend  that  hour  as  I  have  ad- 
vised. For  you  could  not  possibly  spend  the  time  as  advanta- 
geously in  any  other  way.   There  is  nothing  you  can  do  in  the  same 
length  of  time  that  will  bring  you  as  valuable  returns.  The 

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knowledge  that  will  come  to  you  during  that  hour  will  make  it  pos- 
sible for  you  to  accomplish  more  in  three  hours  than  you  ever  did 
before  in  eight.   One  new  idea  executed  at  the  right  time  will  do 
more  towards  making  you  successful  than  ten  years  of  plodding  hard 
work.   I  know  whereof  I  speak.   My  successes,  of  which  there  are 
many,  have  been  the  result  of  confidently  carrying  out  the  origi- 
nal ideas  received  during  concentration. 

Night  is  usually  the  best  time  for  concentration.  It  seems 
that  thought  vibrations^  travel  with  greater  ease  during  the  night. 
There  is  a  reason  for  this,  but  it  does  not  concern  these  lessons 
beyond  the  fact  mentioned. 

You  no  doubt  have  often  noticed  that  the  thoughts  which  come  to 
you  in  the  still  hours  of  the  night  appear  much  clearer  and  make 
a  more  lasting  impression  than  those  that  come  in  the  day  time. 
Personally  I  would  rather  depend  upon  a  flash  of  intelligence  that 
came  at  night  while  I  was  awake,  or  that  wakened  me,  than  upon 
any  other.   In  fact,  when  an  impoortant  idea  comes  to  me  during  the 
day  time  I  always  hold  it  in  abeyance  until  evening.  Then  I  con- 
centrate on  it  and  consider  it  carefully  in  all  its  details,  and 
when  I  have  made  my  decision  it  is  always  the  right  one. 

After  you  have  practiced  concentrating  upon  special  subjects  as 
I  have  advised,  you  will  most  likely  have  thoughts  come  to  you 
during  the  night  with  such  force  that  they  will  awaken  you.  Such 

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a  message  is  for  your  benefit;  consider  it  carefully,  make  a  note 
of  it  and  then  turn,  over  and  go  to  sleep  again.  The  following  day, 
or  as  soon  as  possible  thereafter,  commence  making  use  of  the  idea 
you  received.   If  you  do  not  you  may  lose  it.  I  keep  a  note  pad 
and  pencil  attached  to  the  head  of  my  bed  for  the  particular  pur- 
pose of  making  notes  of  such  messages  for  reference  and  action 
next  day.   I  would  advise  you  to  do  the  same.  If  you  don't  write 
down  a  note  of  it  it  is  likely  to  keep  you  awake  for  hours.  In 
the  morning  as  soon  as  you  look  at  the  words  you  have  written  in 
the  dark  the  entire  message  will  come  back  to  you,  and  if  you  make 
use  of  it  you  will  be  able  to  recall  it  at  any  time  in  the  future-- 
you  will  not  forget  it. 


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LESSON  X. 

Do  you  ever  have  dreams?  Most  people  do,  and  many  never  pass  a 
night  that  is  free  from  them.   Dreams  receive  more  attention  and 
cause  more  comment  than  thought  messages  that  come  to  the  brain  in 
the  waking  hours.   And  yet  there  is  no  difference  between  them. 
They  result  from  the  same  cause  and  enter  the  brain  in  the  same 
manner.   If  you  are  subject  to  dreams  it  signifies  that  you  have 
not  a  good  control  of  your  brain;  that  you  do  not  keep  it  under  a 
sufficiently  tight  rein;  that  on  going  to  sleep  you  leave  the 
doors  of  your  brain  open-,  and  as  a  result  all  kinds  of  stray, 
tramp -thoughts  enter,  play  pranks  and  depart. 

Dreams  are  only  passing  thought  vibrations  that  would  not  reach 
you  if  you  were  awake  and  in  control  of  your  brain.  As  a  rule 
they  are  of  little  or  no  importance,  unless  they  come  with  a  force 
sufficient  to  awaken  you,  then  you  should  take  notice  and  act. 

It  is  a  good  plan  to  dictate  to  your  brain  as  you  are  prepar- 
ing to  go  to  sleep,  and  tell  it  to  guard  against  these  floating 
vibrations,  for  they  are  of  no  benefit  to  you  and  they  only  rob 
you  of  your  needed  rest.   People  who  have  the  least  control  of 
their  brains  in  the  daytime  will  have  the  most  dreams  at  night. 
As  you  follow  these  instructions  you  will  notice  that  your  dreams 
become  less  and  less --because  your  brain  will  daily  come  more  un- 

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der  your  control,  until  it  will  cease  to  waste  energy  on  useless 
thoughts  and  will  save  it  and  use  it  only  where  it  can  be  of 
service . 

When  you  have  attained  to  this  degree  you  will  have  reached  an 
ideal  condition,  a  condition  that  lifts  man  out  of  slavery  and 
makes  him  the  dictator  and  director  of  all  the  affairs  of  life. 
It  robs  him  of  fear,  because  it  shows  him  his  strength.  In  doing 
this  it  makes  failure  impossible  and  success  the  only  possible 
result  of  his  efforts.   Could  yoy  desire  anything  greater? 
Could  you  have  a  nobler  ambition  and  one  more  in  keeping  with  the 
desires  of  your  Creator  than  the  desire  to  be  a  perfectly  ad- 
justed, self -controlled  being--a  master  among  men? 

When  you  have  learned  and  adjusted  yourself  to  the  secret  of 
mind  control,  thought  attraction  and  thought  transference,  you 
will  hold  within  your  grasp  a  powerful  law  and  it  behooves  you  to 
use  it  wisely- -remembering  that  it  is  what  you  think  that  makes 
you  what  you  are.  When  you  have  learned  how  to  think  you  will 
have  the  full  power  to  choose  whether  the  thoughts  you  entertain 
and  send  forth  shall  be  good  and  a  benefit  to  mankind,  or  evil  and 
an  injury  to  your  fellowmen.   There  will  be  no  excuse  for  your  en- 
tertaining either  evil,  failure,  sorrow  or  sickness,  for  you  will 
be  master  of  them  all. 

Do  not  become  impatient  if  you  do  not  accomplish  in  a  few  days 

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all  you  now  think  you  should,  for  remember  that  impatience  is  a 
sure  sign  of  loss  .of  self-control.  Enter  this  work  with  a  deter- 
mination to  succeed  and  let  nothing  stop  you.  The  morV'di±Ticult 
you  find  it  at  first  the  more  you  were  in  need  of  just  such  a  sys- 
tem of  mental  development. 

You  have  the  courage  to  work  312  days  of  each  year  for  the  pur- 
pose of  supplying  the  body  with  food  and  clothing.  Then  there  is 
no  reason  why  you  should  not  cheerfully  devote  one  hour  each  day 
to  developing  the  brain  until  it  has  reached  that  perfection  where 
it,  by  furnishing  you  with  original  ideas,  will  make  it  possible 
for  you  to  earn  a  hundred  times  more  and  with  less  physical  effort 
than  you  are  now  forced  to  use. 

Having  read  these  lessons  through,  are  you  ready  to  begin  the 
system  that  will  develop  in  you  the  power  to  think  correctly  and 
to  recall  or  remember  at  will  the  knowledge  you  need?  If  so,  have 
confidence  in  yourself  to  learn  and  in  me  to  teach  you,  and  never 
lose  sight  of  this  fact,  that,  by  the  law  of  harmony,  every  time  you 
read,  study  or  think  over  these  lessons  you  place  your  brain  in 
tune  with  mine  and  you  will  at  that  time  be  able  to  attract  from 
me  any  additional  information  you  may  need  to  help  you  to  under- 
stand the  Secret  of  Memory. 

Now  go  back  to  the  first  lesson  and  begin  over  again  and  don't 
give  up  the  study  until  you  can  honestly  say  that  your  Mind  is 
Master  of  the  Man. 


THE  LAW  OF  ORIENTALISM 

By-  A.  VICTOR^  SEGNO 

MENTALJSM  is  the  law  of  Nature  which  governs  every  phase  of  human  existence — 
of  life  and  death.  Through  it,  and  by  it,  our  physical  bodies  are  formed  and  kept 
in  health,  our  mental  faculties  developed,  our  character  formed,  our  environments  made 
and  changed,  our  career  marked  out  and  our  destiny  shaped.  It  is  the  law  which  governs 
all  the  phenomena  resulting  from  the  control  of  mind  over  matter  and  mind  over  mind; 
it  is,  itself,  the  controlling  force.  It  is  the  mental  force  which  is  in  constant,  but  often 
unconscious,  operation  by  every  mind  (soul),  whether  in  or  out  of  the  body.  It  is  the 
intelligence  at  the  command  of  man,  that  makes  him  a  god,  and  justifies  the  claim  that 
man  was  made  in  the  image  of  his  Creator.  Within  it  lies  the  secret  of  health,  happiness 
and  success;  and  physical,  mental  and  spiritual  progress.  Through  the  exercise  of  this 
law  man  may  make  of  himself  whatsoever  he  desires.  It  robs  death  of  its  sting  and  the 
grave  of  its  victory,  for  it  demonstrates  conclusively  the  immortality  of  man.  It  ex- 
plains what  the  soul  is  and  how  it  takes  possession  of  the  body.  It  places  the  responsibility 
for  crime  and  wrong-doing  and  teaches  man  liberality  of  thought  and  generosity  toward  his 
fellow-men. 

"The  Law"  is  contained  in  a  beautiful  cloth-bound  volume,  printed  on  fine  heavy  paper 
and  would  be  a  credit  to  any  library.  The  price  of  this  volume  is  three  dollars  ($3.00),  sent 
postpaid.  It  may  be  had  in  the  English,  French,  Spanish  or  German  language. 

Address,    cAMERICAN  INSTITUTE  OF  cTWENTALISM, 

Dept.  S.  M.  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  U.  S.  A. 


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